Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action follows the book very closely; there is a longer introduction before you actually get out on the water, for it takes Hollywood longer than it took Kipling to create the character of rich, spoiled Harvey; but from then on it is all Kipling and the characters portray the gripping tale with the greatest acting you are likely to see on the screen this year--Harvey, Manuel, Captain Disko (Lionel Barrymore), Long Jack. Perhaps the only sour note is the millionaire, Harvey's soupy father, played by Melvyn Douglas; it is doubtful if he is just what Kipling meant...
...lived in a Tudor house, had a nice nestegg in a London bank, stood in well with his party's national committee, had built up good-will by planting the right people in every bureau and department in the Capital. A widower for many years, he let friendly rich widows assist with the social side of his career. At home he was pampered by his beautiful 27-year-old daughter Darnell, who traveled with the "sad young men in the foreign service—touched a little by reading Proust," slept with a handsome swimming instructor who "smelt like a spaniel...
...credit of "Marked Woman" be it said that it brings Botte Davis back to America at a time when the American film audiences are in need of a few pictures about fallen women. American morals, especially New York morals, especially the morals of rich New Yorkers and provincials visiting New York, are definitely low, as everybody knows. If they were not, there would be no "clip joint" racketeers like the one who is the villian of this piece. If he were not in it Miss Davis could not be wronged. And that is her specialty, the thing she does before...
...school to admit that it might be thinking of steamship fare as well as moral principles was rich Harvard, which announced that "if any senior member of the faculty happens to be in Germany about June 30 he will be designated as the Harvard delegate." The University of Pennsylvania, which had earlier accepted Gottingen's invitation, last week withdrew its acceptance when its representative changed his summer plans...
...nautical Gay Street, where the Sun soon moved from its first quarters. Publisher Abell looked out on a teeming and sometimes boisterous communal life. Every night, watchmen plied their staves so briskly on the skulls of yowling Baltimore drunks that a rich budget of police court news was always available in the morning. Publisher Abell broke the journalistic tradition against handling such stories, served them up in his columns hot and strong. Baltimoreans liked this kind of "light for all" so well that within a year the infant Sun had 12,000 readers, by far the biggest circulation in town...